perlmeditation
Anonymous Monk
In <a href="http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/03/07/apocalypse6.html">Apocalyse 6 <a>Larry Wall explains how subroutines are going to work in
Perl 6. I have read all the Apocaplyses and Exegeses. I think this is the straw that broke the camel's back.
I think this is the worst case of <a href="http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/s/second-system_effect.html">"second system syndrome"</a> I
have ever seen. I quote the Jargon file entry: <br/>
"When one is designing the successor to a relatively small,
elegant, and successful system, there is a tendency to become
grandiose in one's success and design an elephantine feature-laden
monstrosity."<br/>
I think the language design shows too much influence of "Evil Damian".
I want "good Damian" to work with Larry et al. to reduce the
complexity of the language. Or (shudder) a subset of the language to
be defined.<br/>
Please advise me as to how to proceed.
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